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Six faces of Streptococcus

October 10, 2014
Like the faces of a die, Streptococcus pneumonia has six unique states it can switch to making it a leading cause of serious illness across the globe. A genetic switch...

Treating cancer with wasp venom

August 18, 2014
Wasp venom is proving to be a novel source of inspiration for a new therapy for breast cancer. Scientists from the Institute of Biomedical Research in Barcelona (IRB Barcelona) have...

Potential BRCA3 found

August 14, 2014
A third gene related to breast cancer risk has been identified by an international team of researchers. Women with mutations in the PALB2 gene have on average a one in...

Injected polio vaccine to boost immunity

July 15, 2014
A type of polio vaccine that fell out of favour in the 1960s could hasten the eradication of the disease.A study published in The Lancet suggests that the injected polio...

US researchers exposed to live anthrax

June 20, 2014
Failure to adhere to proper procedure means as many as 75 scientists in America may have been exposed to live anthrax bacteria. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

Combating drug resistance in melanoma

June 2, 2014
Resistance to a treatment for advanced melanoma could be prevented by blocking a druggable family of proteins. Cancer Research UK scientists at the CRUK Manchester Institute have found that the...

Leap in modelling cardiovascular disease

May 30, 2014
American scientists have made a huge leap forward in genetic modelling after growing functioning human heart tissue carrying an inherited cardiovascular disease for the first time. The Harvard team combined...

Neutron analysis reveals cancer drug clustering

May 30, 2014
Cancer pharmaceuticals currently have to be administered intravenously because of a tendency for solutions containing high concentrations of some antibodies to be highly viscous.Not only does this prevent large scale...

H10N8 bird flu unlikely to threaten public health

May 29, 2014
H10N8, the most recent avian influenza virus to infect humans, is unlikely to cause a threat to public health without further changes say the Medical Research Council (MRC). In order...

Synthetic molecule for new asthma treatment

May 21, 2014
A novel molecule which prevents T-cells from coordinating asthma bought on by allergens has been identified by an international team of researchers. The findings, published in Proceedings of the National...

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